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From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2022

No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired the title to "The Greatest."

From Time Magazine Archive

And we should not befog the issue by saying that this is degrading.

From Industrial Progress and Human Economics by James Hartness

Experience usually demonstrates, however, that an estimate in only the necessary detail escapes the danger inherent in undue detail which would tend to befog the main issues.

From Sound Military Decision by Edward C. (Edward Clifford) Kalbfus

Laboratories, experiments, tables, classifications are all very vital and all very necessary but sometimes their net result is only to befog and confuse.

From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

As always with the royal family, details about its internal deliberations are elusive and befogged in speculation.

From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2021

She wasn’t befogged, as their father had been.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

But then you arrive and everything is damp, blurred, befogged.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018

Last week, on the second anniversary of the Charter,* U.N.'s record was still befogged by the optimists and the cynics.

From Time Magazine Archive

When you shout Durham! the gloomy and befogged financial atmosphere becomes clear and there is a mad rush and scramble for her bonds.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and befogging the stars.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Holymead vamped up all sorts of surmises and suppositions for the purpose of befogging the jury and getting their minds away from the outstanding feature of the case for the prosecution.

From The Hampstead Mystery by John R. (John Reay) Watson

Reed cast an agonized look at the cook and remained speechless, but Tucker, with more experience in the befogging properties of language, rushed to his assistance.

From Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance by Alice Duer Miller

And the Tribune dares to make this impudent attempt at befogging the American people, and at the same time dares to tell that people that it is "intelligent."

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

Philadelphia lawyers are exceedingly astute, and are able to confuse the simplest propositions, thus hopelessly befogging judge and jury.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard